Modern locations of places in the Bible:

Farata

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Also Called	Fara’ata, Ferata, Fer‘ata
Latitude, Longitude	32.190556, 35.165833
Palestine 1928 Grid Coordinates (?)	165809/177442
Type	settlement
Point Precision	point in modern settlement
Coordinates Sources	Amud Anan Anchor Yale Bible Dictionary (1992): Pirathon (place) Digital Archaeological Atlas of the Holy Land Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible (2000): Pirathon HarperCollins Concise Atlas of the Bible (1991): Pirathon OpenStreetMap Palestine Open Maps Wikidata Zondervan Atlas of the Bible (2010): Pirathon
General Location Notes	International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1979) (Ophir): “west of Shechem”
Geo Data	KML (for Google Earth) GeoJSON (for GIS applications)

Biblical places associated with Farata

Pirathon: high confidence
Beth-le-aphrah: very low confidence
Abiezer: very low confidence
Ophrah 2: very low confidence

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